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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006/regulation-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/676",
  "legislation_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-discipline-prescribed-procedures-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Consideration of a complaint by the Office for Judicial Complaints",
  "text": "(1) Unless there are reasons why it believes that a complaint should be investigated, the Office for Judicial Complaints must dismiss a complaint, or part of a complaint, if it falls into any of the following categories—\n(a) it does not adequately particularise the matter complained of;\n(b) it is about a judicial decision or judicial case management, and raises no question of misconduct;\n(c) the action complained of was not done or caused to be done by a judicial office holder;\n(d) it is vexatious;\n(e) it is without substance or, even if substantiated, would not require any disciplinary action to be taken;\n(f) it is untrue, mistaken or misconceived;\n(g) it raises a matter which has already been dealt with, whether under these regulations or otherwise, and does not present any material new evidence;\n(h) it is about a person who no longer holds any judicial office;\n(i) it is about the private life of a judicial office holder and could not reasonably be considered to affect his suitability to hold judicial office;\n(j) it is about the professional conduct in a non-judicial capacity of a judicial office holder and could not reasonably be considered to affect his suitability to hold judicial office;\n(k) for any other reason it does not relate to misconduct by a judicial office holder.\n(2) The Office for Judicial Complaints may not dismiss a complaint under paragraph (1)(a) unless it has given the complainant a reasonable opportunity to provide adequate particulars of the complaint.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2098",
      "affecting_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/2098",
      "affecting_title": "The Judicial Discipline (Prescribed Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2008"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/676/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:34:34.513449+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}